Blog Rounds V
posted in - Blog rounds, - Palmdoc |Welcome to the 5th edition of the MMR Blog rounds where we take you through to some interesting posts we spotted in the Malaysian Medical blogosphere.
A couple of “fatherly” posts were spotted. Shah who said Thank you Dada. Also Bernard who’s proud of Dad who managed to complete it though did it take All Night Long?
Jimbo expounds on his Masters’ Thesis: prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in men with ischemic heart disease (or the PENIS study). Before anyone gets excited it’s all deflatingly dry statistics. But love the cartoon Jimbo!
George ponders if our doctors are treated fairly and well? The answer is obvious. Read and weep:
A walk to my office finds me with a dozen of letters and much more emails in my official email. One was a letter for my subspeciality training in upper gastrointestinal surgery and another important letter was a letter for a course from the 4th to the 8th December in Shah Alam for “Peperiksaan Tahap Kecekapan” for promotional exercise under the absurd SSM scheme which makes being a specialist a joke! Yeah a joke, after 5 years of undergraduate studying and another 4 years of doing a speciality in surgery, I am still nobody in the eyes of the government — mainly the ministry of health and the public service department. Now this so called ” Peperiksaan Tahap Kecekapan” , a government administrative exam which has no medical bearing is needed to substantiate the need for my promotion rather than the medical training and speciality exams we go through! Why should we need this non-practical administrative exam when the administrative job is suppose to be done by the Public Services Department staff which are known as Administrative and Diplomatic Officers in the offices. These are the guys who sit in the office and are most of the time missing at work. This is their answer for their incapable officers who is of dire need of such exams rather than us! To make this worse, this particular promotional exercise are only for specialist gazetted by the year end 2006. So what happens to those after? They are forced to sit for two exams before reaching the supposed specialist pay! So tell me, is this a system that promotes and encourage doctors to be specialist and serve the public? Is this a system that will keep specialist in public service?
Thinking of going into private practice then? It’s not all a bed of roses. This is especially if you have a partner(s) in your practice. 1st@ last do no harm, talks about Couples of a different sort. Doctors are humans and not everyone can work well together. Sometimes inflated egos get in the way!
George talks about post-mortems. I thought deaths within 24 hours of admission would be Coroner’s cases? Can the Pathologist refuse a PM? First time I’ve heard of this!
More frustration for Shah as he wonders What Wawasan 2020?. More bureaucracy which simply frustrates Government doctors.
Some are just starting out. Doc Del is now gainfully employed. Congratulations and welcome to the stark reality of life as a doctor in Malaysia. We might be able to help Doc Del in her quest for her “other half”. Single, female, doctor. Any takers? 
For those just starting out on the rocky road of post-graduate medical training, do read yyyap’s post School of Hard Knocks
Life may seem hard, but I have just the song for you to keep on Smiling;
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December 7th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
oh my.. LOL